Pianistki w szkolnictwie muzycznym Lwowa od połowy XIX wieku do 1939 roku

Abstrakt

Lviv was an exceptionally well-developed centre of music education. The number of music schools conducting long-term or short-term didactic activities in Lviv between 1839 and 1939 totalled over 150, majority of which were managed by women. A large number of female artists active in music education, especially pianists, was, in a way, a consequence of social and moral situation of women at that time. The professional activity of women in the field of music at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century was associated primarily with pedagogical activity, undertaken mainly in private schools or as home teachers. Working as a teacher, a woman was able to start a career in the field of intellectual work. This article is devoted to female pianists employed in the most notable music schools functioning in Lviv from the mid-nineteenth century to 1939. The author mainly deals with little-known or forgotten female artists, who are absent in Polish music literature.